Colonial Contexts of Knowledge Acquisition

Today’s Lecture

RESEARCH METHODS

Change over time Reading/interpreting

sources Specific comparisons

Scale “unit of analysis”

HISTORICAL CONTENT

Mutual development of colonialism and science

Compare the projects of Kolb, Sparrman, and Bleek

Cape Colony: Territorial Expansion

Colonie du Cap de Bonne EspéranceCA: M 1/326, c. 1820

Considerations of Power

History of ScienceOle Worm (1588-1654), a doctor and professor of natural philosophy in Copenhagen, used his collection to teach students.

Museum Wormianum; seu, Historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum . . . Leiden: ex officina Elseviriorum, 1655Smithsonian Institution Library

Briefly,In Europe

South African National Gallery

South African Museum

Slave Lodge

Portuguese Exploration

Bartolomeu Dias, 1488

Vasco Da Gama, 1498

Portuguese navigators reach the Azores, 1427

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Colonial Exchanges

Anders Sparrman (1748-1820)

Cross-cultural collaborations Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875) Lucy Lloyd (1834-1914) |xam ||kabbo